What is your mother's maiden name? Ekborg-Millfloss.What is the name of your first pet? James Tiberius Bunny.
What was the name of the first street on which you lived? Baltic Avenue.
What is your favorite movie? In-flight safety demonstration video on Virgin America.
Which Stooge do you most closely resemble? Dead Shemp.
How many fingers am I holding up? 1. Are you flipping me off?
You see a tortoise lying on its back. What do you do? Make soup.
What's a sin, Alex? What you're doing to Ludwig B!
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
How many lights do you see? THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.
What is the average airspeed of a swallow? African or European?
When did you stop beating your wife? N/A
What is mind? {cuts off student's finger}
What is your mother's maiden name? My mother? Let me tell you about my mother!

Seattle journalist Glenn Fleishman writes the Mac 911 and Private I columns at Macworld, and co-hosts its podcast. He also contributes regularly to the Economist, Boing Boing, MIT Technology Review, TidBITS, and Six Colors. Previously: the editor and publisher of The Magazine and host of the podcast The New Disruptors. Banner picture of Carl Montford's hand, taken by yours truly in his home letterpress shop. Subscribe via RSS or Twitter to a feed of most of my articles published everywhere.

This week, I pinch-hit to write an issue of a favorite email newsletter, Hot Pod by Nick Quah. I discovered it a few months ago, and it is like ambrosia to those like me who want more insight into the broad podcast "industry," especially the parts I don't know in public radio. Nick just got a new job and was going to take this week off, so I offered to write an issue, which you can read here.